Energetic yet rigidly robotic rockers Baddies have just revealed dates for an upcoming UK and European tour which, if written out on a piece of paper with every word end to end, would stretch to the moon and halfway back again. No kidd'n. It's also a tour that they'll be the main attraction, i.e headlining.
Here are the myriad of festival dates they are currently due to play:
August:
1 - Nozstock Festival, Herefordshire
1 - Leopallooza Festival, Cornwall
7 - Open Flair Festival, Eschwege
13 - Haldern Festival, Haldern
14 - Oya Festival, Oya, Norway
15 - Rocko Del Schalko, Puettlingen, Germany
16 - Summer Sundae, Leicester
20 - Pukkelpop Festival, Hasselt
21 - Frequency Festival, Salzburg, Austria
22 - Highfield Festival, Hohenfolden, Germany
23 - Area 4 Festival, Dortmund
27 - Esquires, Bedford
28 - Leeds Festival, Leeds
29 - Reading Festival, Reading
September:
12 - Bestival, Isle of Wight
And here is the plethora of headline dates lined up which have just been announced. You may very well want to take a deep breath for this one...
Baddies Headline UK Dates:
October:
1 - Academy 2, Dublin, Ireland
2 - Auntie Annie's, Belfast, Northern Ireland
4 - Captain's Rest, Glasgow
5 - The Cluny, Newcastle
7 - Cockpit, Leeds
8 - Moho, Manchester
9 - Rock City, Nottingham
10 - Academy 2, Birmingham
12 - Borderline, London
Headline European Dates:
October:
14 - Nouveau Casion, Paris, France
15 - Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
16 - Trix, Antwerp, Belgium
18 - Rotown, Rotterdam, Netherlands
19 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
20 - Loppen, Cophenhagen, Denmark
21 - Nosturi, Helsinki, Finland
22 - John Dee, Oslo, Norway
23 - Sticky Fingers, Gothenburg, Sweden
24 - Debaser, Stockholm, Sweden
26 - Molotow, Hamburg, Germany
27 - Magnet, Berlin, Germany
28 - Blue Note, Poznan, Poland
30 - Beatpol, Dresden, Germany
31 - Sweat, Leipzig, Germany
November:
2 - Lucerna Music B, Prague, Czech Rep.
5 - B72, Vienna, Austria
6 - 59 to 1, Munich, Germany
11 - Hafenkneipe, Zurich, Switzerland
12 - Shocken, Stuttgart, Germany
13 - Karlstorbahnof, Heidelberg, Germany
14 - Nachtlenben, Frankfurt, Germany
15 - Werkstatt, Cologne, Germany
Yeah, so that's a fucking lot of dates. Talk about singing for your supper...
There's also more good Baddies news in the form of a debut album, in that they've got one coming out. It's called Do The Job and will be released on September 21 through the band's own label, Medical and will be preceded by single 'Open One Eye' one week before.
Front cover looks like this:
We can only hope it lives up to its title. And more.